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The America’s Most Wanted revival is returning to Fox.

Viewership for the fourth Republican debate fell since the last event, drawing more than 4 million for Nexstar’s NewsNation and its simulcast on The CW.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The audience for NewsNation‘s Wednesday-night Republican primary debate was one of the smallest and the biggest. Nearly 1.6 million tuned in to the Nexstar-backed upstart cable-news outlet to watch two former Republican governors, one current one and one outlier tangle for attention and donors in a debate moderated by Elizabeth Vargas, Megyn Kelly and Eliana Johnson, with more than 2.5 million choosing to watch a simulcast on the CW broadcast network, a corporate sibling.

NewsNation is hosting Wednesday night’s fourth Republican primary debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle, set to air live from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on the network and the NewsNation’s website and app.

CNN has scheduled a pair of presidential town halls next week, while the Republican National Committee announced that four candidates qualified for the next debate on Wednesday.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Before CNN, CBS News or ABC News can snare one of the series of Republican primary debates taking place in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, another news outlet will have its turn. NewsNation, the upstart cable-news property launched by Nexstar Media in March of 2021, will team up with SiriusXM Radio and the conservative political outlet Washington Free Beacon on December 6 to broadcast the event, the fourth backed by the Republican National Committee following debates telecast by Fox News Media networks and NBC News.

NewsNation will host the next Republican primary debate, a big get for the fledgling news network.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Deborah Roberts is taking up co-anchor duties at ABC News’ “20/20,” the latest in a line of distinguished anchors that includes Barbra Walters, Hugh Downs, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung and Elizabeth Vargas who have led the long-running newsmagazine. Roberts is no stranger to the series’ rhythms. She has been contributing to it for 28 years, ever since she joined ABC News in 1995, recruited by Barbara Walters.

Sherri Shepherd is apologizing to recovering alcoholic, Elizabeth Vargas, after continuously suggesting she should “get drunk” on air.

Madison De La Garza, well-known as the child star from later seasons of ABC's opened up this week about her battle with an eating disorder sparked by cyberbullying following the show. «They said things like they wanted me to die because of what I looked like,» De La Garza told podcast host Elizabeth Vargas this week. While speaking about her experience with online attacks, the actress shared memories of sneaking onto the computer to find comments about herself. «It was just horrible, like, 'ugly fat cow,' and 'I hope you get cancer and die because you're so fat,» De La Garza recalled.De La Garza played Juanita Solis, the daughter of Eva Longoria's Gabrielle Solis, on the show. She took on the role in season 5, after the series jumped five years ahead.

Madison De La Garza was haunted for years by the insults heaped upon her at age 6.

"Desperate Housewives" star Madison De La Garza admitted that the cyberbullying she received while starring on the drama led her to "starve" herself. De La Garza, who portrayed Eva Longoria's daughter, Juanita Solis, in the series, revealed she developed an eating disorder at 7 years old due to the "horrible" things said about her online.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Madison De La Garza, who gained television fame as a child star thanks to her role on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” opened up to journalist and former “20/20” anchor Elizabeth Vargas on the “Heart of the Matter” podcast about battling cyberbullying and an eating disorder following her run on the show (via Entertainment Weekly). De La Garza appeared on four seasons of “Desperate Housewives” as Juanita Solis, the daughter of Eva Longoria’s character, Gabrielle Solis. De La Garza took over the role of Gabrielle’s daughter in Season 5, when the show jumped ahead five years from the previous season. She was only six years old at the time. The actor stayed in the role through the final season of “Desperate Housewives,” which ended in May 2012.

Elizabeth Vargas spent more than 20 years at ABC News, including stints co-anchoring World News Tonight, hosting 20/20 and news anchoring Good Morning America.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The new New York studio that Nexstar Media Group built for Elizabeth Vargas’ nascent NewsNation program is so big, the anchor believes she could do five cartwheels across if called upon to do so. Starting Monday night, the company begins the process of figuring out if such rigorous calisthenics will be necessary. TV-news aficionados likely know Vargas from her 15-year stint as a co-anchor on ABC News’ “20/20,” but on Monday night, she will jump right into the fray in the information wars, with a program at 6 p.m. eastern – a time slot that has become more competitive in recent months. At MSNBC, for example, Ari Melber’s “The Beat” has become one of that network’s most-watched programs. Late-afternoon has become more of a cable-news battlefield as viewers who have learned to work from home after the coronavirus pandemic tune in earlier to get a recap of the day’s events.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Nexstar Media has spent months assembling a massive roster of TV stations; acquring TV’s CW network; and building the NewsNation cable-news oulet. Now comes the hard part: Getting Madison Avenue to buy ads across all of it. The nation’s largest owner of local TV outlets is ready to make its pitch to advertisers and has already scheduled a presentation for media buyers in New York for April 25. The goal, says Michael Strober, the company’s chief revenue officer, is to showcase the company’s reach among both national and local media. “We can bring local and national to our clients in ways that have never been replicated across the country,” he says in an interview. “The CW, NewsNation, TheHill, Nexstar Digital and over 200 local stations — that to me is our differentiator in the marketplace.”

Scott Sternberg Productions and CJ ENM are teaming to bring Korean lifestyle format Get It Beauty to the U.S.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Nexstar is bringing together two of its prized properties this spring with the debut of a daily “The Hill” program on NewsNation. Chairman and CEO Perry Sook revealed that the long-gestating series based on the political news outlet, acquired by Nexstar in 2021, will premiere in April and run Monday-Friday. “Next steps for us, obviously, Elizabeth Vargas is going to the network in April,” Sook said. “And by the end of April we will have a program schedule that will be news 24/5. So we will be a 24-hour news network Monday-Friday by the end of April and that will include the daytime expansion, the addition of ‘The Hill,’ the addition of the ‘Elizabeth Vargas Reports’ show at 6 o’clock Eastern, Monday-Friday. And at that point, obviously, we’re getting higher cost per thousands in news programming than we did in off-network programming. We’ve been able to substantially grow our distribution revenue because of news content and being one of five networks rather than one of a hundred general entertainment networks.”

Elizabeth Vargas is the latest news veteran to join Nexstar’s NewsNation, with plans to launch a weekday news program on April 3.

Saturday Night Live’s” 48th season, which will return on October 1. The premiere episode’s host and musical guest will be announced at another date. Though the show typically operates on a fluid weekly schedule throughout the season, new episodes are expected to air on the following two weekends, October 8th and 15th, after its premiere. Creator Lorne Michaels continues as executive producwe. Following the show’s 47th season finale, the cast saw its largest exodus in recent memory, with the departures of tenured members Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney announced shortly before the season’s final show. In early September, three more cast members — Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and Aristotle Athari — departed the show.

Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others,” as well as trying to find a place where he achieved self-love.Levi opened up about his battles with suicidal thoughts and his mental breakdown at age 37 with journalist Elizabeth Vargas on her “Heart of the Matter” podcast ahead of his book release, according to the Hollywood Reporter.The “Shazam” star noted, “I didn’t realize that I was struggling with these things until I was 37, about five years ago… and I had a complete mental breakdown.”He said the breakdown happened once he moved to Austin, Texas and he realized what was happening when he was just driving around town and could not decide on a restaurant to eat at.“I’m sitting in my truck, and vividly, I remember I was holding onto the wheel and I was just shaking back and forth, that like almost trying to shake myself out of what it was going on, and I’m just weeping. I’m just crying,” he recounted.

Zachary Levi is telling his story. The 41-year-old actor got candid during a new interview with Elizabeth Vargas on her  podcast for Partnership to End Addiction where he details his struggle with mental health, and how he once had a mental breakdown that led him to seek «life-changing» treatment.Levi began the conversation by noting that while he has struggled with anxiety, depression and low self-worth for «most» of his life, he «didn’t realize» it until he was 37 and he had a «complete mental breakdown.» The Rauthor told Vargas he grew up in a household where his step-father was a perfectionist and his mother had «borderline personality.»Explaining how his mom's borderline personality could go from one extreme to the next, Levi said, «If she was in a bad mood, it was the end of the world.

Scott Sternberg Productions today announced the launch of a new documentary division and the acquisition of Strong Island Films.

Sasha Urban editor“iCrime with Elizabeth Vargas,” a new, nationally syndicated true crime show, will premiere September 12, Scott Sternberg Productions and Trifecta Entertainment and Media announced. The show will air in over 95% of the country and will be hosted by Emmy-award winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas (“20/20,” “America’s Most Wanted”).In 30-minute episodes airing Monday through Friday each week, the series will explore crime through the lens of smartphones.

Syndicated true-crime show iCrime with Elizabeth Vargas will air in 95% of the U.S. starting in September.

Cheryl Burke is sharing her addiction story.

Deep reflection. Cheryl Burke opened up about the hardest moments she’s faced during her battle with alcohol addiction in a new interview with Elizabeth Vargas, who’s also in recovery.

Everybody Loves Raymond‘s Patricia Heaton is three years sober as of July, 2021, and she’s now revealing the event that caused her to quit alcohol for good.

Patricia Heaton opens up about leaving alcohol behind.

EXCLUSIVE: The Talk has canceled its live shows for tomorrow, Monday, March 15, and Tuesday, March 16, Deadline has learned. The staff was notified today of the hiatus which comes on the heels of CBS on Friday launching an investigation into the heated exchange at the top of Wednesday’s episode.

Kristen Johnston is getting candid about her past struggles with substance abuse. The star recently opened up about her battle with drugs following her rise to fame on the beloved sitcom .«It was like an on-off relationship for four years,» Johnston said during a recent appearance on Elizabeth Vargas' podcast,.

NEW YORK -- In a clip from the premiere of Fox's fresh take on “ America's Most Wanted,” a series where viewers are told about crimes in the hope of leading to an arrest, new host Elizabeth Vargas examines a 3D avatar of a suspect who appears to be standing next to her on set.“Standing next to him you can learn a lot,” said Vargas, circling the likeness of a male.

“Mom” star Kristen Johnston is getting candid about her past addiction issues, comparing her drug use to “an abusive relationship.”

Her darkest moment. Kristen Johnston reflected on her 14 years of sobriety in a vulnerable new interview — and compared her history of drug use to being in an “abusive relationship.”

Nancy Grace will host a new series for Fox Nation called America’s Most Wanted Overtime, tied to the Fox network airing of America’s Most Wanted, and she also has signed a new multiyear deal in which she will continue Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

Sober confessions. Elizabeth Vargas commended Bachelorette’s Zac Clark on his openness about his sobriety, seven years after she publicly announced she was an alcoholic in January 2014.